Overalls



UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. GLOVER, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

OVERALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,175, dated February 3, 1880.

' Application filed July 28, 1879.

i To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JoHN B. GLOVER, of Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Overalls, 85c. and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, refeience being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in overalls or pantaloons and the invention consists in overalls or pantaloons with the button-hole strip of the fly thereof extending below the crotch and folded over and secured to the opposite or button side of the tly-openin g, therebyre-enforcingthe crotch, as is more particularly hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of part of overalls showing my invention, and Fig. 2 a-section through line ac 00, Fig. l. I

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the two figures.

A represents a pairot' overalls or pantaloons, which maybe made of any desiredanaterial and size, and cut with the ordinary front or fly opening B, to be buttoned and unbuttoned, as in overalls commonly made. The buttonhole part 0, however, of the fly of my overalls has its button-hole strip a (which is formed independently of the body of the part 0 and is stitched to its inner side, as at 1)) cut of sufficient length to permit the lower part of this strip a to extend below the crotch c of the overalls, as shown at d, Fig. 1. The portion 61 of the button-hole strip a that so extends is stitched to the button-strip c of the opposite or button side D of the fly-opening, so that when the part D and the part0 are in positionfor use, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, this portion 1 of the button-hole strip a is folded up and secured to the inner side of thebutton-strip 6.

By extending the button-hole strip a, with its part (1 below the crotch c and securing it to the button side D of the fly-opening, as de scribed, the crotch, which is particularly lia- ,ble, .as is well known, to tear out from undue strain, is substantially re-enforced,'for it will be observed that no part of the strain at the crotch is received by stitching of any kind;

but, to the contrary, it is received directly by the fold of the lower part, 61, of the buttonhole stripe, and the liability totear at the crotch is avoided without any additional stitch' ing or staying at that point, as is done with overallsorpantaloous of common construction.

I am aware that overalls have heretofore been 'madeby stitching in the inside of the fly and across the crotch pieces of elastic and non-elastic cloth, and also by inserting rivets at this point, and by so cutting the cloth as to admit of a portion being overlapped, and in this way forming a reenforcey but all of these methods being wholly diflerent from the one hereinbefore described, I lay no claim to them; but,

Having thus described my invention, What Iclaim' as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved overalls or pants described, having the independent button-hole strip a,

provided with the part d, extended beneath the buttonstrip eand stitched to its inner.

side, all constructed and arranged as and for the purpose specified. y

In testimony whereof I have signed my n-amein the presence of two witnesses.

- JOHN B. GLOVER.

Witnesses:

G. V. SMocK, G. L. TORBETT. 

